PREVIEW: Chatham High School Presents “Macbeth”
Preview article by Gail M. Burns, November 2004. For the fifth consecutive year students at Chatham High School are participating in Shakespeare & Company’s annual…
REVIEW: “The King and I” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 I knew that I had reviewed a previous production of The King and I at the Mac-Haydn many years ago,…
REVIEW: “Barnum” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, August 2004 Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) was 60 years old when Barnum’s Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus made…
REVIEW: “Show Boat” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 And now, ladies and gentlemen, I have the pleasure of announcing that a star is born! I have…
REVIEW: “Adorable Me: The Totie Fields Story” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 “To thine own self be true.” – William Shakespeare In this day and age too many of us…
REVIEW: “Swing!” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, July 2004 Swing! is the kind of show that I am on record as disliking. It is all song and dance…
REVIEW: “Gypsy” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 Gypsy is a great big, old-fashioned musical. Big is the operative word here. It calls for a big cast…
REVIEW: “The Pirates of Penzance” at The Mac-Haydn
Reviewed by Gail M. Burns, June 2004 You must excuse me because I know way too much about The Pirates of Penzance. I have known every…